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Why are you so interested in biology ?

Why are you so interested in biology ?.

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Why are you so interested in biology ?

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  1. Why are you so interested in biology ?

  2. I did not know I would be interested in biology following my baccalauréat, but I had the chance to be a veterinary assistant during my summer vacations and to experience fieldwork very early during my university years. In my second year, a PhD student asked me to help him capturing deers over the week-end. This was a revelation! I discovered that I enjoyed working close to wildlife or visiting remote places… I never stopped enjoying it since then…

  3. Where did you go in expeditions ?

  4. Places where I worked Places where my collaborators worked I have been to a few places, my longest stay being 16 months in the remote island of Crozet, south of La Réunion. Then, I visited the Antarctic continent and the French base of Dumont d’Urville, followed by two expeditions to South Africa, and since 2001 I also spend a month every year in Australia. Biologist is definitely a good job for those who likes travelling around. Places I visited Brisbane (Au) Australian sea-lion Lambert’s Bay (SA) Cape gannets Perth (Au) Little penguins Awashima (J) Streaked shearwaters Lyon (F) Fallow Deers Crozet (F) King penguins Dumont d’Urville (F) Adélie penguins Kerguelen (F) Sub-Antarctic cormorants Disko (GL) Great cormorants Bass Rock (UK) Northern gannets Luderiz (Na) Cape gannets Tromelin (F) Red-Footed boobies Syowa (J) Adélie penguins Melbourne (Au) Little penguins

  5. How many kinds of animals have you ever seen or studied ? Crested terns

  6. Adélie penguin Gentoo penguin Cape penguin Streaked Shearwater Southern Elephant seal Countless… I honestly cannot say how many species of animals I have seen during the course of my field trips. But at least I've been working on 7 species of penguins, 5 species of gannets and boobies, 2 species of grebes, crested terns, fur seals, wild boars, fallow deers, moutain voles, wild cats, and so on... Southern Giant Petrel Macaroni penguin Sooty albatross Fallow deer Sub-Antarctic fur seal Koala Magellanic penguin King penguin

  7. How do you work in polar regions ?

  8. Polar work always involves a mixture of high-technicity and adventure. Polar boats are equipped with cutting edge laboratories and we're given the best clothes to operate in freezing conditions…

  9. But we’re not always living on the edge. There are, occasionally, some relaxing moments… and unusual situations.

  10. What do you study there ?

  11. When I'm in a penguin field I mainly study the activity of the birds when they are at sea. Questions such as: • What they do after leaving the colony? • Where do they feed? • How many fish or shrimps they capture? • How efficient swimmers and divers are they? • The idea is to link their performances to the conditions encountered at sea and look how these change when the environment is modified.

  12. I follow the activity at sea of birds by attaching miniature data-recording devices on them, an approach known as BIO-LOGGING, which I promoted by organizing the 1st symposium on the subject in 2003. I follow the activity at sea of birds by attaching miniature data-recording devices on them, an approach known as BIO-LOGGING, which I promoted by organizing the 1st symposium on the subject in 2003.

  13. What are you studying at the moment ?

  14. The project on which I was recruited at the CNRS consists in investigating what determines the quality of an individual. Why some birds can reproduce successfully during years of poor resources availability and some can’t. To investigate this I will track year-round the at-sea and on-land activities of penguins using automatic monitoring systems. The project on which I was recruited at the CNRS consists in investigating what determines the quality of an individual. Why some birds can reproduce successfully during years of poor resources availability and some can’t. To investigate this I will track year-round the at-sea and on-land activities of penguins using automatic monitoring systems.

  15. And what is your future project ?

  16. One of the main project I’d like to develop now is the creation of a unit of bio-logging at the CNRS (production and promotion of data-recording devices). This unit will serve to address conservation-oriented questions in Europe, and elsewhere. This program has links with the International Polar Year project I’m running (www.amppop.org) and the Penguiness Book (http://polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~penguin/penguiness/), to which the students from Lycée Paul Moreau participated. Thank you.

  17. Photos by Yan Ropert-Coudert, Akiko Kato, David Ainley, David Beaune, Yannick Clerquin, Grégoire Kuntz, Nikolaï Liebsch

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